WEBVTT FIRST TONIGHT ... A MYSTERY IN THE CITY OF ANDERSON. A SEARCH IS STILL ON FOR THE PERSON WHO STARTED A STANDOFF THIS MORNING... WHEN POLICE GOT INSIDE THE HOME...THEY FOUND IT EMPTY. WYFF NEWS 4'S MANDY GAITHER IS LIVE AND LOCAL IN ANDERSON. MANDY...POLICE FIRST WENT TO THE HOME FOR A DOMESTIC DISPUTE. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TOLD...AND WHEN THEY GOT HERE...POLICE SAY A WOMAN TOLD THEM HER BOYFRIEND WAS INSIDE ARMED WITH A SHOTGUN. THAT POPPING SOUND...WAS TEAR GAS... MULTIPLE ROUNDS FIRED INTO THIS HOME ON WEST WHITNER STREET... AS ARMED ANDERSON POLICE AND ANDERSON COUNTY DEPUTIES WERE TOLD A MAN WITH A SHOTGUN HAD BARRICADED HIMSELF INSIDE... FOR HOURS NEGOTIATORS TRIED TO TALK TO THE SUSPECT THROUGH A LOUD SPEAKER... THEY GOT NO RESPONSE...WHICH ISN'T UNUSUAL WHEN DEALING WITH SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T WANT TO COME OUT... IT WASN'T UNTIL OFFICERS WENT IN...THAT THEY REALIZED THE SUSPECT WASN'T THERE... POLICE BELIEVE HE LEFT WHEN THEY PULLED UP...BUT OFFICERS DIDN'T SEE HIM. I was kind of scared shook up you know what i'm saying WHILE THE NAME OF THE SUSPECT IS STILL NOT BEING RELEASED...CALVIN JOHNSON SAYS IT'S HIS FATHER... JOHNSON SAYS HIS DAD AND HIS FATHER'S GIRLFRIEND HAVE BEEN ARGUING SINCE YESTERDAY. the only thing I know is that it was over a cable box he snatched the cable box out the room and her son went and tried to get it back THE GIRLFRIEND AND HER TEENAGED SON WERE NOT VISIBLY HURT...NEITHER WANTED TO TALK ON CAMERA. THERE WERE OUTSTANDING WARRANTS ON THE SUSPECT BEFORE THE STANDOFF EVEN STARTED. I just hope everything gets settled the right way and not the deadly way EVEN THOUGH NO ONE WAS INSIDE THE HOME...POLICE SAY THEY STILL HAD TO REACT THIS WAY...JUST IN CASE THE MAN HAD BEEN HERE. AND TONIGHT POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SUSPECT. MANDY GAITHER WYFF NEWS 4 LIVE IN ANDERSON.

Subject of SWAT action turns self in to police

Eddie Graham faces previous charges, standoff investigation

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Updated: 2:32 PM EDT May 3, 2017

ANDERSON, S.C. —

An armed man who police say was involved in a domestic dispute that led to a SWAT action has turned himself in, police said.

Eddie Graham, 51, turned himself in about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Lt. Tony Tilley.

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"The only charges against him at this time are the bench warrants from earlier incidents," Tilley said in a release. Those earlier charges were for public disorderly conduct and criminal domestic violence, according to Tilley.

The incident from Tuesday is still under investigation and no charges have been filed, Tilley said.

Graham is scheduled to appear in municipal court at 8 a.m., Tilley said.

For more than an hour on Tuesday, Anderson police used a loudspeaker to try to talk Graham out of a home they thought he was in on West Whitner Street near C Street, which is near Capstone Church.

Police said they were called to the home at 10:50 a.m. regarding a confrontation between the man and a woman. They said Graham had a gun and he went into the house and refused to come out.

Police said they were able to safely get a 19-year-old boy and the woman out of the house.

There were Anderson police officers and Anderson County deputies at the scene as well as the Sheriff’s Office armored vehicle.

News 4’s Mandy Gaither said popping sounds that came from the home just before noon were made by tear gas that was fired into the house.

Officers made entry into the home at about 12:45 p.m., but found no one inside.

Police said they didn't know what besides a shotgun Graham might have had in the home, and their priority was to keep the residential area and their officers safe, which is why they surrounded the home and used the tear gas.

Police say they believed Graham was in the house when they first got there, but they believe he slipped out before SWAT arrived and officers were in place.